Stories Collection

  1. NEW YORK (AFP) — A plagiarism scandal surrounding the recalled debut novel by H...
  2. FRANKFURT, Germany (AFP) — German rider Danilo Hondo says he has not given up h...
  3. KABUL (AFP) — Afghan President Hamid Karzai swore in 20 ministers but failed to...
  4. BAGHDAD (AFP) — Two German hostages were released in Iraq after a three-month o...
  5. ST.JOHN'S (AFP) — Brian Lara has warned his teammates that performance and not ...
  6. WASHINGTON (AFP) — Young Americans know little about world geography, with the ...
  7. ALEXANDRIA, United States(AFP) — Zacarias Moussaoui languished in his courthous...
  8. SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Barry Bonds moved within two home runs of ...
  9. CHICAGO (AFP) — Renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma has partnered with more than 70 cultu...
  10. N'DJAMENA (AFP) — Polling stations opened in Chad for a controversial president...
  11. LOS ANGELES (AFP) — National Basketball Association rising star Kwame Brown dec...
  12. NEW DELHI (AFP) — Muslim separatists met India's prime minister for fresh peace...
  13. N'DJAMENA (AFP) — Early turnout in Chad's presidential election remained very l...
  14. TEHRAN (AFP) — Fifteen people have died in southern Iran after drinking homemad...
  15. LONDON (AFP) — Nick Mallett could be helping England to retain the World Cup ne...
  16. NAIROBI (AFP) — A Kenyan judge has suggested that arch-rival English football c...
  17. HANOI (AFP) — Heavy rain in Laos has prevented several constituencies from repo...
  18. NEW YORK (AFP) — US entertainment giant Time Warner Inc. has reported a 59-perc...
  19. LONDON (AFP) — An England supporter has taken out a one million pound (1.5 mill...
  20. WASHINGTON (AFP) — Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke stayed mum on the econ...
  21. LONDON (AFP) — British airports operator BAA laid out a preliminary defence aga...
  22. SOFIA (AFP) — A Bulgarian newspaper published cartoons of Libyan leader Moamer ...
  23. LONDON (AFP) — Cooking vegetables in certain ways can make them as acidic as to...
  24. BERLIN (AFP) — Christian ministers will tackle Muslim imams in a pre-World Cup ...
  25. LONDON (AFP) — Putative England national manager rivals Steve McClaren and Sam ...
  26. WASHINGTON (AFP) — Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani said he disagreed with a...
  27. MILWAUKEE, United States (AFP) — Tomo Okha, a 30-year-old Japanese right-handed...
  28. HONIARA (AFP) — Lawmakers in the Solomon Islands have elected pro-China opposit...
  29. DENVER, United States (AFP) — Al-Qaeda plotter Zacarias Moussaoui is now headed...
  30. FRANKFURT (AFP) — Commerzbank, the second-biggest bank in Germany, said it may ...
  31. JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israel will unilaterally fix its borders if it can not make p...
  32. BAGHDAD (AFP) — Iraq's dominant Shiite alliance will retain the crucial post of...
  33. ABUJA (AFP) — African leaders began a summit here Thursday to assess progress i...
  34. BUCHAREST (AFP) — Almost 14,000 Romanians were still evacuated from their homes...
  35. WASHINGTON (AFP) — New US unemployment claims rose by 5,000 last week to a seas...
  36. GENEVA (AFP) — Some 282,000 lives could be saved every year mainly in Africa an...
  37. BAGHDAD (AFP) — US forces are "zooming in" on Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who may be ...
  38. JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israel has the power and ability to defend itself from a nucl...
  39. YANGON (AFP) — Twenty-one people were killed and another 14 are still missing a...
  40. PARIS (AFP) — The French Senate began debating a fiercely contested Internet mu...
  41. LONDON (AFP) — A would-be mugger fell foul of the law after he told a woman to ...
  42. LISBON (AFP) — Portugal's modern fado diva Mariza will go on a tour of Asia in ...
  43. WASHINGTON (AFP) — The White House voiced support for the new coalition governm...
  44. LOS ANGELES (AFP) — Half the favorites are missing and four upstart lower seeds...
  45. KATHMANDU (AFP) — Nepal's new government has taken a tentative step towards pea...
  46. TOKYO (AFP) — World number one Lin Dan shocked struggling Olympic champion Tauf...
  47. PUERTO IGUAZU, Argentina (AFP) — Bolivia promised to keep natural gas flowing t...
  48. ABUJA (AFP) — Hopes rose for peace in the devastated Sudanese region of Darfur ...
  49. TEHRAN (AFP) — A top Iranian cleric has vowed a harsh response in case of a sho...
  50. BAGHDAD (AFP) — Twelve people, including three US soldiers, were killed in insu...
  51. YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — More lava trails spewed from the peak of Indonesi...
  52. GAZA CITY (AFP) — Thousands of Palestinians have demanded death to the United S...
  53. LONDON (AFP) — She's seen owners come and go, but the tortoise in the garden of...
  54. DUBROVNIK, Croatia (AFP) — Heavy security was being enforced in this medieval C...
  55. HYDERABAD, India (AFP) — India's prime minister called for a "pan Asian" free t...
  56. VIENNA (AFP) — The International Press Institute announced that it would presen...
  57. WASHINGTON (AFP) — US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a "bittersweet" ...
  58. WARSAW (AFP) — Venus Williams fell 6-4, 6-2 to two-time finalist Svetlana Kuzne...
  59. WASHINGTON (AFP) — US President George W. Bush said the September 11 revolt of ...
  60. CHARLOTTE, United States (AFP) — Bo Van Pelt fired nine birdies to match the co...
  61. COLOMBO (AFP) — A Japanese peace envoy is to arrive in Sri Lanka for talks as S...
  62. DULUTH (AFP) — Phil Mickelson has posted the lowest 36-hole total of his career...
  63. ROME (AFP) — The race for the fourth and final Champions League spot in Serie A...
  64. BERLIN (AFP) — Critics of former chancellor Gerhard Schroeder have lambasted hi...
  65. GLASGOW (AFP) — Gretna manager Rowan Alexander admitted his side's 3-0 win agai...
  66. KIZILTEPE, Turkey (AFP) — The death toll from a week of violent street clashes ...
  67. GENEVA (AFP) — The Swiss-Swedish engineering group ABB said that its 1.43-billi...
  68. BAGHDAD (AFP) — To properly pick up Baghdad's garbage, deputy mayor Hussein al-...
  69. CAIRO (AFP) — The former leader of Egypt's opposition Wafd party was detained a...
  70. BANGKOK (AFP) — Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, whose CEO-style approac...
  71. LOS ANGELES (AFP) — Baseball fans won't know whether to moo or boo when seven-t...
  72. BERLIN (AFP) — Germany has finally turned the corner and appears to be on the w...
  73. BEIJING (AFP) — Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson paid respects to ...
  74. AMMAN (AFP) — Iraq's resistance has replaced Jordanian-born Abu Musab al-Zarqaw...
  75. JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israeli authorities have used rubber bullets and tear gas to ...
  76. FREETOWN (AFP) — Nearly three years after his indictment the former president o...
  77. ATHENS (AFP) — Four of the 28 Pakistanis who claimed last year they were abduct...
  78. BOSTON, United States (AFP) — US reporter Jill Carroll arrived at Boston's airp...
  79. GUNUNG SITOLI, Indonesia (AFP) — A private museum on the quake-ravaged Indonesi...
  80. NAIROBI (AFP) — Stringent or vague legislation, coupled with deep-rooted social...
  81. BANGKOK (AFP) — Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said he was ready to con...
  82. TOKYO (AFP) — Japanese coach Zico was released from hospital Monday after spend...
  83. BEIJING (AFP) — Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama may be allowed to visit...
  84. GOA, India (AFP) — Yuvraj Singh hammered an explosive century as India posted a...
  85. FREETOWN (AFP) — Liberian former president Charles Taylor, once one of Africa's...
  86. DAMASCUS (AFP) — A Damascus newspaper has called for a probe into the killings ...
  87. KABUL (AFP) — The United States expects increased violence linked to insurgents...
  88. KABUL (AFP) — It is difficult to say when NATO will take command of the coaliti...
  89. PARIS (AFP) — Shares in French telecom technology group Alcatel rose 4.78 perce...
  90. INDIANAPOLIS, United States (AFP) — Dominique Wilkins, known for his acrobatic ...
  91. LONDON (AFP) — US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice left London heading back ...
  92. LOS ANGELES (AFP) — The dysfunctional yellow family of the hit animated televis...
  93. WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States condemned the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK...
  94. DETROIT, United States (AFP) — Delphi Corporation, the bankrupt auto parts supp...
  95. DENVER, United States (AFP) — Rob Blake became the 17th defenseman in National ...
  96. JERUSALEM (AFP) — Doctors postponed an operation to restore part of Israeli Pri...
  97. KUWAIT CITY (AFP) — Tribesman candidate Yussef al-Suwaileh comfortably won a Ku...
  98. LONDON (AFP) — The dollar weakened against the euro and yen as US economic data...
  99. BAGHDAD (AFP) — Iraq's Shiite Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, under fire ove...
  100. BEIJING (AFP) — The United Nations' top official on bird flu urged China to sha...
  101. WASHINGTON (AFP) — Tom DeLay, the Republican former strongman largely responsib...
  102. LONDON (AFP) — Senior English football officials are set to be presented with a...
  103. BRUSSELS (AFP) — Frustrated that consumers are not seeing the benefits of compe...
  104. MOSCOW (AFP) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met the Secretary General...
  105. SAN DIEGO, United States (AFP) — A Pakistani who plotted to peddle heroin and h...
  106. SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) — Hundreds of people were evacuated as relentless storms po...
  107. RIYADH (AFP) — Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said that Iran's war games durin...
  108. WASHINGTON (AFP) — The German-US group DaimlerChrysler announced that it would ...
  109. WASHINGTON (AFP) — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice defended Washington's la...
  110. LONDON (AFP) — A majority of Britons do not want to see Prince Charles' second ...
  111. LONDON (AFP) — Bank of England (BoE) policymakers are widely forecast to leave ...
  112. LONDON (AFP) — England captain David Beckham has tipped former club Manchester ...
  113. GLASGOW (AFP) — Andy Murray has until Thursday to prove his fitness for Great B...
  114. LONDON (AFP) — The euro has struck a 10-week high point against the dollar on r...
  115. WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States should set a May 15 deadline for Iraqis to...
  116. BERLIN (AFP) — The deadly H5N1 bird flu virus has for the first time been detec...
  117. RIYADH (AFP) — Saudi Arabia will fund the construction of a permanent seat for ...
  118. FRANKFURT, Germany (AFP) — Germany manager Jurgen Klinsmann has organised an in...
  119. LONDON (AFP) — A love of punk and hard rock anthems by The Clash and Led Zeppel...
  120. CAIRO (AFP) — Egypt reported a new human case of the deadly H5N1 strain of avia...
  121. PARIS (AFP) — French investigators raided the offices of Airbus chief executive...
  122. BELGRADE (AFP) — The European Union resumed talks on closer ties with Belgrade ...
  123. LONDON (AFP) — Amid concern over Iran's nuclear ambitions, analysts are worried...
  124. LOS ANGELES (AFP) — US movie star Nicolas Cage and rapper 50 Cent are teaming u...
  125. GLASGOW (AFP) — Birthday boy John Hartson scored the only goal of the game as C...
  126. PHOENIX, United States (AFP) — The Phoenix Suns announced that Amare Stoudemire...
  127. LONDON (AFP) — More than 700 known England football hooligans will be free to t...
  128. BEIJING (AFP) — China said it had no plans yet to receive Palestinian foreign m...
  129. JERUSALEM (AFP) — Ehud Olmert will be formally tasked by President Moshe Katsav...
  130. JAKARTA (AFP) — There are no nudes and the cover is anything but X-rated, but P...
  131. JOHANNESBURG (AFP) — After taking a battering from world champions Australia ov...
  132. DETROIT, Michigan (AFP) — Bankruptcy is not an option for the Ford Motor Co., s...
  133. ARMAGH, Northern Ireland (AFP) — The British and Irish prime ministers set Nort...
  134. JERUSALEM (AFP) — The World Health Organisation warned of dire consquences for ...
  135. SHANGHAI (AFP) — Russia's Anastasia Ivanenko broke down in tears after narrowly...
  136. GLASGOW (AFP) — Scott Harrison claimed he will make his next opponent pay after...
  137. OTTAWA (AFP) — A not so thoughtful donation to a thrift store in central Manito...
  138. OSLO (AFP) — Air traffic in Norway was severely disrupted after cabin crew with...
  139. MADRID (AFP) — The head of the UN nuclear watchdog said he hoped for "cooperati...
  140. LISBON (AFP) — The Portuguese government unveiled a proposed new law which woul...
  141. LONDON (AFP) — Fulham's Senegal midfielder Papa Bouba Diop has signed a one yea...
  142. TEHRAN (AFP) — Two men convicted of involvement in a recent bomb attack in the ...
  143. TOKYO (AFP) — Asian champions Japan displayed their weaknesses heading into the...
  144. LONDON (AFP) — World oil prices climbed on persistent worries about supplies, l...
  145. JERUSALEM (AFP) — An Israeli settler was killed in a drive-by Palestinian shoot...
  146. BEIRUT (AFP) — Lebanon's influential Maronite council of bishops headed by Card...
  147. JAKARTA (AFP) — Two more people were admitted to hospital in the Indonesian cap...
  148. SEOUL (AFP) — South Korea, heading for their sixth World Cup finals in a row, c...
  149. GENEVA (AFP) — Switzerland detected its second case of the H5 bird flu virus in...
  150. LISBON (AFP) — Portuguese side Porto's Angolan-born defender Pedro Emanuel has ...
  151. BORDEAUX, France (AFP) — To lovers of fine wine there is no more satisfying sou...
  152. SANAA (AFP) — Two of 17 Al-Qaeda suspects on trial for planning attacks in Yeme...
  153. JOHANNESBURG (AFP) — South Africans voted in local elections in a major popular...
  154. WASHINGTON (AFP) — The son of the last shah of Iran, Reza Pahlavi, urged suppor...
  155. LISBON (AFP) — The Portuguese government, which is under pressure from the Euro...
  156. MIAMI (AFP) — The Mississippi legislature moved toward further tightening alrea...
  157. PARIS (AFP) — With cool winter elegance on offer at Rochas and Dries Van Noten'...
  158. LONDON (AFP) — Fresh evidence that Britain's Prince Charles sees himself as a p...
  159. NASSAU (AFP) — Experts probed the unusual deaths of 14 birds in the southern Ba...
  160. BAGHDAD (AFP) — Insurgent attacks across Iraq killed at least 31 people and wou...
  161. LONDON (AFP) — Standard Chartered, the British-based emerging markets bank, ann...
  162. TEHRAN (AFP) — Two Arab separatists convicted of carrying out a deadly bomb att...
  163. RIYADH (AFP) — Gulf monarchies called on the international community to continu...
  164. LONDON (AFP) — InterContinental Hotels Group announced that its net profit incr...
  165. HOLLYWOOD (AFP) — Plunging back and necklines, miles of silk and a treasure tro...
  166. BAGHDAD (AFP) — A woman suspected of being infected with the deadly H5N1 virus ...
  167. BAGHDAD (AFP) — US forces have detained 61 rebels linked to Al-Qaeda in Iraq fr...
  168. WARSAW (AFP) — The Polish edition of Playboy offered to come to the aid of a 19...
  169. ADDIS ABABA (AFP) — Ethiopian authorites said they had incinerated all the chic...
  170. STOCKHOLM (AFP) — Sweden could, in theory at least, lose its much celebrated ic...
  171. NEW YORK (AFP) — Former male nurse Charles Cullen was sentenced to life in pris...
  172. NEW DELHI (AFP) — The White House defended US President George W. Bush's handli...
  173. WASHINGTON (AFP) — The Dubai company taking over a British firm that manages ke...
  174. VIENNA (AFP) — Britain, France and Germany were to hold last-ditch ministerial ...
  175. DENPASAR, Indonesia (AFP) — A male singer stripped down to his underpants in Ba...
  176. BEIJING (AFP) — China warned that a move by Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian t...
  177. LONDON (AFP) — World oil prices rose for the fourth day in a row as traders fre...
  178. PARIS (AFP) — A publicity stunt in which a golf ball will be whacked into orbit...
  179. BRUSSELS (AFP) — The European Commission confirmed that the first case of bovin...
  180. BRUSSELS (AFP) — EU Internal Market Commissioner Charlie McCreevy has given Par...
  181. PORT VILA (AFP) — US officials have signed a five-year, 66-million-dollar aid a...
  182. LONDON (AFP) — Bjorn Borg, the Swedish tennis player who became the first man t...
  183. ISLAMABAD (AFP) — US President George W. Bush is to hold talks with Pakistani P...
  184. SEOUL (AFP) — Samsung Electronics and Hynix Semiconductor will be probed if all...
  185. STOCKHOLM (AFP) — Eight new cases of H5 bird flu have been detected in Sweden a...
  186. LONDON (AFP) — British Prime Minister Tony Blair said he believes God will judg...
  187. MAGDALEN ISLANDS, Canada (AFP) — Sir Paul McCartney risked prosecution by cuddl...
  188. WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States hailed the lifting of the state of emergen...
  189. PEORIA, United States (AFP) — Chicago Cubs pitcher Kerry Wood, coming off shoul...
  190. LAS VEGAS, United States (AFP) — Lleyton Hewitt shrugged off blustery condition...
  191. CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AFP) — The rampant Canterbury Crusaders put the Auck...
  192. BERLIN (AFP) — Germany's humiliating 4-1 defeat by Italy left coach Jurgen Klin...
  193. BEIJING (AFP) — China's military budget will increase almost 15 percent this ye...
  194. JOHANNESBURG (AFP) — South African President Thabo Mbeki claimed his ruling Afr...
  195. BERLIN (AFP) — Seven-time Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher says it...
  196. BEIJING (AFP) — China has postponed the launch of the Shenzhou VII rocket and t...
  197. MIDDLESBROUGH, England (AFP) — Mark Viduka's first goal in three months was eno...
  198. TOKYO (AFP) — Olympic gold medallist Shizuka Arakawa enjoyed her first taste of...
  199. WASHINGTON (AFP) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrives in Washington...